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polymorphous perverse

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polymorphous perverse
adj.
Characterized by or displaying sexual tendencies that have no specific direction, as in an infant or young child, but that may evolve into acts that are regarded as perversions in adults.
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Part three proceeds from the question of transgressive sexuality, making use of Sigmund Freud's theory of polymorphous perverse tendencies, Julia Kristeva's theory of ideality as malady in adolescence, and Judith Butler's expansion of both Freud and Kristeva in her relation between melancholia and the desire for recognition.
Past difference--future possibility: re-reading the early Brecht by Zelezny, Jena / Traffic (Parkville)
The five remaining partially colored drawings on canvas were offbeat, polymorphous perverse variations on Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continui ty in Space, 1913, executed in a style that might have had a precedent had Sophie Taeuber-Arp ever been invited to fill in for Chic Young as illustrator of the Blondie comic strip.
Inverleith House. (Reviews) by Giolla Leith, Caoimhin Mac / Artforum International
Not far beneath this book's extraordinarily sophisticated surface lurks a romanticism reminiscent of the 1960s, celebrating the polymorphous perverse and imaging that making love--really making love--might put a terminus to making war.
Disarming the Nation: Women's Writing and the American Civil War by Baym, Nina / African American Review
 
 
 
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